The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-07-29
Temperance Department.
COMMUNICATED.

An important decision was recently
given by Judge Lawrence, of the SUI.
preme court, New York. He decided
that el-kcepers cannot sell liquors to
their guests with their meals on Sunday.
The queen of Madagascar in Il recent
proclamation says, Il cannot consent as
your queen, to take single penny of
revenue from that which destroys the
souls and bodies of my subjects
1t was announced on the 18th that the
Sunday law enacted by the Missouri leg
islature last winter would be vigorously
enforced in St. Louis. 1t closes all sa-
looms, beer gardens. thcaters, base ball
parks, etc.
1t looks as if the prohibition movement
was likely to sweep like n prairie fire
over Dakota. We have yet to see the
county in which it is not thought the
movement will be successful at the polls
next November. In this county those
who are circulating the petition report
that nearly every person puts down his
name. 1t does not follow that all who
sign will vote for the measure, however.
There are some who want it brought to
n vote as matter of speculation to sec
what the majority really want.-Bahgate
Sentinel.
The movement against the saloon
gathers strength as it proceeds. Every.
where through the Union-north, east,
west and south-the people are rising in
rebellion against the rule of rum. Re.
strictive legislation in various forms, and
constitutional prohibition, are the prin-
cipal lines along which the warfare pro
ceeds. During the present season the
legislatures of no less than twenty -one
states have been called upon to consider
the drink evil and take action toward.
its SUPPRESSION. In nearly every one OF
these states something has been done tc
| check the growth of the saloon and cur
| tail its power. High license laws, loca
option and prohibitory amendments, arr
the order of the day. Never before il
the history of the temperance cause ha
the feeling against the liquor tratfl
been so deep, so widespread, SO earnest
| 81, Il ~ orr,;paI ,n,,r
| That most powerful Of agencies, tn
public press, has at last arraycd itsel
against the traffic; many of the leading
secular journals of the country hay
adopted tone of bitter hostility to tn
| grog-shop, and are attacking it daily
with all the force and ability they hav
at command. No stronger or NOR
effective arguments against the salool
can be found anywhere than those pu
forward i'll the editorial columns of som
of the New York dailies. The gain fo
temperance in this direction has been o
the most significant and promising char
acter. Public men, too-men of affairs
judges, statesmen, political leaders
who have heretofore held themselve
aloof from the discussion of temperate.
are now taking sides in the conflict: an
many of the ablest and best of thel
have openly declared against 1.-The bus
ness of manufacturing drunkards."
The lines are being more and MOI
sharply drawn every day between I'll
adherents of the rum shop and IL
friends of peace, order and sobriet,
The hour is at hand when every ma
must make decision in this matte
And, when it comes to this issue ever,
where. VIC cannot doubt where the m
jority will stand. The sentiment of IL
country is overwhelming against a col
tinuance of the saloon domination
There can be no mistaking this fac
The present movement is not depende,
upon wave of pops'9a1ln pops91n%iplaa,sa Gibbons Kit
not born of passing uing the usy.: 1t
the outcome of years'uontllyng and su
fcring induced by the - y ,rsed drin
traffic; it is revolt of the people again
power whose reign OF outrage, vice al
crime has become too terrible to
longer endured. observer.
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